DTT will be completely turned upside down in 2025 and several channels will change channels. Prepare to review the numbers on your remote on this specific date.
The year 2025 will mark an unprecedented upheaval in your TV program, in particular in the TNT schedule. Many emblematic channels will in fact cease broadcasting, making way for new arrivals. Among the main victims of this big clean-up, we find C8 and NRJ12. Last July, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom), responsible for allocating and controlling frequencies, announced that the two TNT channels were not being renewed and would stop.
A date has even been set: February 28, 2025, the two channels will cease broadcasting after respectively 11 and 17 years of existence. A shock for their teams who have been trying for several months to appeal the decision, in vain. Another notable departure is that of Canal+, which has chosen to withdraw all of its pay channels from DTT in 2025: Canal+, Canal+ Cinéma, Canal+ Sport and Planète+. At the end of the year, the group denounced an “increasingly restrictive tax and regulatory environment”. Its TNT subscribers will have to switch to other reception modes such as satellite or ADSL.
Arcom will therefore completely review the list of broadcast channels and you will have to change your habits since new numbers will be assigned to several channels. According to several specialist media including La Lettre and Challenges, France 4 will recover channel 4, left free by the withdrawal of Canal+, and Channel 8, formerly allocated to C8, will be reserved for LCP/Public Senate. A real advantage for these public channels. The block of news channels will continue, but will also move forward only a few numbers: BFMTV will take channel 13, ahead of CNews in 14, LCI in 15 and France Info in 16. Gulli will move forward in twelfth place, in place of NRJ 12.
The new channels, which will fill the void left by C8 and NRJ 12, will arrive on channels 18 and 19. These are OFTV and RéelsTV. Their order should be determined by drawing lots. OFTV is a project led by the Sipa-Ouest-France group. The channel intends to “highlight the territories” with programming focused on local information, but also entertainment, series and French cinema. Its main studio will also be located in Rennes, and not in Paris like most of its competitors.
For its part, RéelsTV is a project emanating from Czech magnate Daniel Kretinsky, who already owns numerous media outlets in France such as Elle, Marianne and the Loopsider site. The channel will focus on documentaries (50% of its schedule), debates and cultural programs. She also highlights her desire to offer a “peaceful” tone, far from clashes and controversies.
The changes are expected to take place on June 1. What can we expect from a black screen on one of channels 8 and 12 released at the end of February, as Cyril Hanouna denounced? Not quite, as the Actu.fr site explained, but we can expect significant turbulence….
